Is it of the Second Freshness? Read it and decide.

Getting Started: Review the reading list below and be ready to discuss the stories as assigned.

Work on creating the PowerPoint together; you may use GoogleDocs to create your Presentation. You will find the link to the left. I have already created the presentation and invited all of you to collaborate. Check your emails for invitations.

Pushkin:

Author Biography

Queen of Spades
The Shot (I will make copies and distribute)
The Snowstorm (I will make copies and distribute)
The Undertaker (I will make copies and distribute)
The Peasant Girl (I will make copies and distribute)
Selected other stories
Ruslan and Ludmila (skim)

Gogol:

The Overcoat (I will make copies and distribute)
Inspector General (skim synopsis; reading is optional)
The Nose

Chekhov:

Pick any three of the stories below:
Gooseberries,
The Grasshopper,
The Bishop, or
The Lady with the Lapdog
The Bet
The Darling
Reading The Duel > is OPTIONAL, as it is 21 chapters long...I will try to order the film.)
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13437/pg13437.html (The Bet and Darling links in addition to many others)

Tolstoy:

God Sees the Truth But Waits (copy)
Alyosha the Pot (copy)
Love (copy)
Prisoner of the Caucuses (copy)
selected works (TBA)

Kafka:

Metamorphosis (See wikipedia and review the synopsis)
selected works (copies)

Bunin:

Light Breathing (Gentle Breathing) (The text is in an online PDF file; it's on pages 41-50)

Mann:

Little Herr Friedemann (copies)
Tristan (copies)
Death in Venice (borrow book or ask for copies)

Schopenhauer and Nietzsche:

Lectures (video lecture/copies)
Discussion

Selected Literary Works

Foreign Films:

Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmila (DVD; excerpts)
Bulgakov: Master and Margarita (DVD; Russian with English subtitles/selected episodes from Russian mini-series)
Krzysztof Kieslowski: Three Color's Trilogy: Blue, White, and Red (French and Polish with English subtitles)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet: Amélie (French with English subtitles)
Selected Works (TBA)